FILE – This undated family file photo released by the King family shows Chelsea King, the missing 17-year-old teen from Poway a suburb of San Diego Calif. The 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated will have a memorial service Saturday March 13, 2010, 11 days after her body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave near Lake Hodges, Calif
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Sacto 9-1-1: Man arrested for alleged Del Campo High visits has long record of sex offenses
Hugh Levell Stewart was arrested Wednesday at his home in Fair Oaks. The 55-year-old sexually violent predator arrested Wednesday after allegedly twice visiting Del Campo High School has a criminal record dating back to when he was 11 and has a history of rapes, sexual assaults and stays in two of California’s mental hospitals for sex offenders, a prosecutor told The Bee today.
Calif. police seek gunmen after boy’s 911 call
Authorities said Wednesday that they are “astounded” by the heroic actions of a 7-year-old boy who hid with his younger sister in a bathroom and called 911 while armed robbers broke into his home and threatened his parents. “I’m still astounded by his mindset,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Douglas Jensen said
Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard shares home videos
Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday. In one video clip, Dugard’s mother, Terry Probyn, thanks the public for its support and asks people to respect the family’s privacy
21Q blog: Crayon, Ribbons and a great night of music
Two of the most inventive, best-named bands on the local scene play tonight in separate shows: Sister Crayon, who marry haunting vocals with layered electronic beats and grooves, and Agent Ribbons , who rely on more organic instrumentation (Guitar, drums, accordion, violin) and a fashion sense blending the 1960s and 1880s. Making this Thursday-night embarrassment of riches even more imperative is Agent Ribbons’ singer/guitarist Natalie Gordon’s imminent move to Austin. Agent Ribbons, which consists of Gordon, Sacramento-based drummer Lauren Hess and Austin-based violinist Naomi Cherie, won’t be playing in Sacramento again for a while
Sheriff’s probe: Did Yolo deputies put a gun to a child’s head?
Cristal Ochoa, 10, is comforted by her mother, Gricelda Rodriguez, right, and her sister, Marisa Ochoa, as they recall the night officers searched their Dunnigan home. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto said Tuesday he has launched an investigation into claims by a Dunnigan couple that a deputy stuck a gun to the head of their 9-year-old daughter as officers executed a search warrant in June. The girl’s father, Santiago Ochoa, said he recognized two of the deputies who came to their rural home on June 11 as Hernan Oviedo and Hector Bautista, gang-unit officers involved in the controversial shooting of farmworker Luis Gutierrez on a Woodland overpass in April.
Defendant’s sister convicted as accessory in California correctional officer’s killing
Allyssa Vue Sacramento prosecutors have obtained their first conviction in the October 2008 shooting death of a California correctional officer in the garage of his south area home. Allyssa Vue, 37, the sister of former sheriff’s deputy Chu Vue, who is the principal defendant in the slaying of Steve Lo, pleaded no contest Friday to acting as an accessory in the case. She was sentenced to 90 days on the sheriff’s work project and five years of probation, according to Sacramento Superior Court records.
Capital-area activists seek full census count of Franklin Boulevard’s Latinos
Xochitl Chavez, a native of Mexico, styles Antonia Macias’ hair at her beauty salon on Franklin Boulevard. “I want to see some of my people in the White House,” Chavez said, equating a full census count to political power for Latinos. North Franklin Boulevard – Sacramento’s burgeoning Latino business district – is on the front lines of the 2010 census campaign here
Sacramento jury convicts man in 2007 shooting death of ARC student
Dominick West Jurors pieced the night together from its ominous start – from when Dominick Theado West flashed a gun and threatened a man over next to nothing, up to the end, when he shot and killed a woman over even less. On Wednesday, a Sacramento Superior Court panel of 10 men and two women returned a second-degree murder conviction against the 28-year-old defendant in the shooting death of American River College fashion student Mary Ourk. It took the jury about a day to deliberate
